The EPA just gutted its own ability to regulate climate pollution. On February 10, the Environmental Protection Agency said it would ditch its “endangerment finding”—the mechanism that allows the government to regulate climate pollution.

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, the Trump administration this week is expected to formally eliminate the U.

The EPA plans to roll back the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that threaten public health and welfare.

Officials for the Environmental Protection Agency are working to end a 2009 declaration that says climate change is a danger to public health.

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including from vehicles and fossil fuel power plants, endanger public health and welfare. The decision,

The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.

EPA’s repeal of a monumental scientific finding on global warming in the coming days could close the door on a decade and a half of U.S. climate policy.

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, readers! We are kicking off today’s newsletter with some updates on the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding,

A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.